ENTREVUE n.75 - 1998 by Nadine Jelot-BlancTranslated by Barbara from Italy.  Thank you, Barbara!By choice or by chance you can make your destiny. Becoming a star or a pariah.Entrevue finds those who have taken the wrong road. And those who would walk that road again.DeeDee McCall, the partner of Rick Hunter the macho man, was the favourite of all the less then 50 year old managers. 
But the gentle brunette, married to a Denver cowboy, loves rock music and Magnum bullets.This Stepfanie doesn't live in Monaco but in Colorado. We had to wait until her concert with The Doo Wha Riders, her group, 
to see that she is intelligent and also has a voice. A little breathless after the concert, she goes to another club, not far from
Rock'n'roll Hyatt, made famous by Jim Morrison. Stepfanie has changed her Beretta for the microphone!Q: Stepfanie, have all your dreams come true?A: Yes, and also my parents' dreams have come true. My mother was a model, my father played the violin in the 
philharmonic orchestra of Los Angeles, where I was born. They transmitted to me their love for show business.Q: What was your first television role?A: One day I found myself in front of a camera for a Starsky & Hutch episode.I knew they would recognize me, call me by my name.Q: Why "Stepfanie"?A: This comes from my imagination! My real name is Stephanie, but when I had to sign in the American Actor's Guild - 
it's compulsory -1 found there's was already a Stephanie Kramer, so I changed my first name a little.Q: How did you come to work in Hunter?A: In 1984, 1 already knew Stephen J. Cannell, he called me for the pilot episode of Riptide but I was rejected and 
replaced by another actress, but Cannel promised to call me for another part.  Three weeks later I got the part of
 DeeDee McCall.Q: Did this change your life?A: More than you can imagine. I am a quiet person, but this show has awakened a part of my nature that I didn't know.Q: Which one, tell us...A: Thanks to my part as a policewoman I discovered that I have a fondness for large caliber guns. It happened during 
the first episode, where I had to use a 44 Magnum. On my first try I shot all the bullets and emptied the gun. Then I 
took regular lessons at a club in Hollywood. My favourite is a 9 mm automatic Beretta. From then I've always had it with me.Q: Is Fred Dryer - Rick Hunter a real macho? Did you have a relationship with him?A: He's my ideal man. We never had a relationship but I could have easily loved him, because he's a special man. 
Thanks to him, I became a vegetarian. It's a pity that he doesn't have a sentimental side.Q: Apart from guns, what else did you learn?A: In 147 episodes, I grew as a person, and one of my biggest dreams came true: the episode "The return of White Cloud" 
was about my Indian origins.Q: Apache or Cheyenne?A: None of the two. My mother is of Cherokee origins. I think those people have suffered because of persecution and 
ignorance. The Indians are disappearing, and with them their culture.Q: But you are married to a cowboy from Colorado, isn't that a paradox?A: In 1990, when I decided to leave the show, the production wanted a tragic death for DeeDee, but I didn't like it. DeeDee 
was leaving to marry the love of life.. .just like me. She married an Englishman, I married an American that I met at the 
agricultural fair of Denver. Leaving Hollywood, my priorities became my daughter and rock' n' roll. Because I liked it that way.Q: Would you do it all over again?A: Only a golden landscape could make me leave the Rocky Mountains. I was born in Los Angeles, but I hate that city. 
I always had to go out with my Beretta!THE END